Wheelfile 🔪🧀This library aims to make it dead simple to create a format-compliant [.whl file (wheel)](https://pythonwheels.com/). It provides an API comparable to [zipfile](https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html). Use this if you wish to inspect or create wheels in your code. For a quick look, see the example on the right, which packages the wheelfile module itself into a wheel 🤸. #### What's the difference between this and [wheel](https://pypi.org/project/wheel/)? "Wheel" tries to provide a reference implementation for the standard. It is used by setuptools and has its own CLI, but no stable API. The goal of Wheelfile is to provide a simple API. Wheelfile does not depend on Wheel. ## Acknowledgements Thanks to [Paul Moore](https://github.com/pfmoore) for providing [his gist](https://gist.github.com/pfmoore/20f3654ca33f8b14f0fcb6dfa1a6b469) of basic metadata parsing logic, which helped to avoid many foolish mistakes in the initial implementation. |
``` pip install wheelfile ``` ```py from wheelfile import WheelFile, __version__ spec = { 'distname': 'wheelfile', 'version': __version__ } requirements = [ 'packaging >= 20.8', ] with WheelFile(mode='w', **spec) as wf: wf.metadata.requires_dists = requirements wf.write('./wheelfile.py') # 🧀 ``` More examples: buildscript | PEP-517 builder |